I agree with you - there were a lot of variables at play in 2016. I posit that Comey may have been manipulated by some of those variables.
Does Comey have different biases than me? Perhaps. Do I find some of his personality traits annoying? Perhaps. But that does not mean I should paint him as an evil bad guy and blame him for what happened in 2016? I don't think so. He is human, like all of us.
I have opinions about the behavior of Wasserman-Schulz and the DNC, as well.
I applaud your research. Here is more about the forces at work behind the scenes in the 2016 election. Charles McGonigle, at the FBI New York field office, may have played a very significant role in helping to sway the election. He was working with Rudy Giuliani, He had connections to the Russians in the background. It is likely that Comey spoke up at one point because he knew a leak from the NY field office was forthcoming. It is possible McConigle was behind the leak to NY Times, which led to an erroneous front page spread on Oct. 31, citing unnamed “intelligence sources,” the Times reported, “Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia.”
In October of 2023, the Philadelphia Inquirer published an article, written by Will Bunch, entitled: "The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016". The subtitle of the article was "[T]he arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016".
The first paragraph reads: "It was arguably the most consequential “October Surprise” in the history of American presidential elections. In the waning days of the 2016 race, with polls showing Hillary Clinton clinging to a lead over Donald Trump, two last-minute stories broke that rekindled on-the-fence voters’ ethical doubts about Democrat Clinton and quashed a budding scandal around her GOP rival." Here is an archived link to the full article. https://archive.ph/uTMbc
There were a lot of forces at play in the 2016 election.
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